Joke Workshop

Act as a comedy writer.

Topic or theme: [TOPIC]
Audience: [AUDIENCE]
Setting: [STAGE / SOCIAL / WRITTEN / TOAST]
Tone allowed: [CLEAN / EDGY / SELF-DEPRECATING]
What I want to avoid: [AVOID]

Generate 8 original jokes across forms:
- 2 one-liners
- 2 observational ("Have you ever noticed…")
- 1 self-deprecating
- 1 misdirection / pull-the-rug
- 1 callback (reference earlier material to make a payoff)
- 1 absurd / surreal

For each:
- The joke
- The technique used
- The kind of audience it lands with
- The most likely failure mode (lands weird, dated, mean)
- A small variant to test on stage

End with 3 tags to bolt onto whichever joke gets the biggest laugh.